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Complex Pullbacks and Two-Legged Corrections
Identify a complex pullback, compare it with a simple correction or reversal, and read ABC legs, confirmation levels, and remaining reward versus risk.
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Contracting and Expanding Triangles: Read the Boundaries
Distinguish contracting and expanding price structures, identify their actual boundaries, and read the confirmed breakout without guessing from the outline.
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Double Tops and Bottoms: Identify the Test and Neckline
Recognize double tops and double bottoms, distinguish a second test from a completed reversal, and locate the neckline that confirms the direction.
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Final Flags: Identify the Failed Last Push
Recognize a final-flag reversal through a pause, one more trend extension, and a confirmed return through the flag's opposite boundary.
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First Break vs. Second Break: Trade the Pullback Restart
Distinguish FB and SB pullback setups, identify first and second trend-recovery attempts, and compare their confirmation, location, and failure boundaries.
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Head and Shoulders: Identify the Shape and Neckline Break
Identify head-and-shoulders tops and bottoms through their pivots and neckline, then distinguish the completed reversal from an unfinished outline.
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High 1, High 2, Low 1, Low 2: Count Pullback Attempts
Learn to count first and second attempts to resume a trend, distinguish a trigger from a swing high, and reset the count when the pullback ends.
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ii, iii, and IOI Patterns: Recognize Candle Compression
Count nested inside bars and inside-outside-inside sequences, mark their inner and outer boundaries, and connect a breakout to the surrounding trend.
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Inside and Outside Bars: Read the Full Candle Range
Identify inside and outside bars using complete highs and lows, distinguish them from body engulfing, and use context to choose a directional setup.
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Inside Range Breaks: Read Nested Price Structures
Recognize an inside range break, distinguish inner and outer boundaries, and use a shallow handle without mistaking it for a full range breakout.
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Major Trend Reversals: Read the Break, Test, and Turn
Identify a major trend reversal through a broken trend, a test of the old extreme, and renewed opposite movement, with a precise EMA gap-bar definition.
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Measured Moves: Calculate Targets from Price Structure
Calculate range-height, equal-leg, and head-height projections with clear starting points, then compare each target with the nearest visible obstacle.
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Range Breaks: Read the Squeeze Before the Breakout
Identify a range-break squeeze, read rising lows or falling highs near the boundary, and separate the directional setup from a confirmed breakout.
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Simple Pullbacks: Find a Clear Trend Restart
Recognize an orderly pullback in a strong trend, locate a compact pause, and wait for a closing break before treating it as a trend restart.
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Spike-and-Channel and Stair-Step Trends: Read the Progress
Distinguish a fast impulse followed by a channel from a trend built through successive ranges, and recognize when directional progress starts to weaken.
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Trading-Range Edges: Read Rejections and Reversals
Identify a trading range, distinguish its edges from the middle, and read bullish rejections at the floor or bearish rejections at the ceiling.
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Trend Lines and Price Channels: Draw the Right Boundaries
Identify rising and falling channels, distinguish trend lines from channel lines, and use shallow or deep pullbacks to judge the strength of a move.
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Wedges and Three Pushes: Identify the Reversal Setup
Identify rising and falling wedges, count three pushes with intervening pullbacks, and distinguish a confirmed reversal from a failed reversal attempt.
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Breakout Candles: Identify Bullish and Bearish Breaks
Learn what a breakout candle is, compare bullish and bearish closing breaks, spot wick-only attempts, and separate confirmation from an entry fill.
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Rising and Falling Three Methods: Spot Trend Continuation
Identify the five candles of rising and falling three methods, check the pullback boundaries, and use the final close to read bullish or bearish continuation.
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Three-Candle Continuation: Identify the Next Push
Recognize a push, contained pullback, and renewed push, then use green-red-green or red-green-red sequences to read bullish or bearish continuation.
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Three White Soldiers and Black Crows: Read the Direction
Identify three white soldiers and three black crows from their bodies, opens, and closes, then use the sequence to read bullish or bearish pressure.
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